Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17011, Nathaniel Gilman, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N 16
Gilman, Nathaniel Sarah
W. 17011
CONTENTS

3327
New York City
Sarah Gilman widow of Nathaniel Gilman who died on the 13 th August 1803 at Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire who was a Lieut in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Genl. Dearborn in the New Hampshire line for 20 months 322 days
N. 26.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York City at the rate of 276. Dollars 4 3 Cents per annum, to commence on the fourth day of March, 1831.
Amend from $200
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of August 1831 and sent to
Nathaniel Gilman
No 72, Gold Street New York
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Recorded by Book D.
Vol. 2
Leighman Clerk, Page 357
Letter - P.M. Irving
Pension Agent
Sept 2 nd 1850
Nathan Gilman
Sept 15 1852
Same May 9/56
Nath. Gilman New York City

The subscriber hereby Certify that in the year 1806 I moved from Kensington to the Town of Newmarket in the County of Buckingham and State of New Hampshire and that I lived a near neighbour to Winthrop Cheswell Esqr from the 8 th day of May till March 1817 when he said Cheswell Deceased I knew him to be a very Correct man and one who was very particular in keeping and preserving records of various kinds and descriptions since his death his daughters made me a present of a book which was kept by their father while living in which I found a record of the deaths in the Town of Newmarket from the year 1791 1791 till November first 1815 I found also in the same Book written over the Title page an abstract of Mr. Woodys Catalogue of persons he had married which commenced in 1731 and ended September 19 th 1776 among other things I find in said Catalogue 1774 October first Nathaniel Gilman, Sarah Brunscomb The whole number of Marriages recorded in said Book taken from Mr. Woodys Catalogue are 341
November 10 th 1838 Newmarket, October 10 th 1838
Benjamin Loveren
N. B. in the record of Nathaniel Gilman and Sarah Brunscomb marriage I have not written the date of record Seventeen Hundred & Seventy four but have copied it as it stood in Cheswells abstract The original much sought for but not found that I know of
Benj m Loveren

Rockingham So November 10 th 1838
Personally appearing Benjamin Loverin made oath that the within Certificate by him subscribed is True
Before me M c E Burleigh J. Peace
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss I John Kelly Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that Nathaniel E Burleigh Esq is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that the foregoing signature is a true signature of said Esquire and in the handwriting of said Esquire. I further certify that the said Benjamin Loverin is a Justice of the Peace for said County
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 10th day of November A D 1838
John Kelly Register of Probate

I certify that Benjamin Loveran Esq who hath made the present affida- vit is a gentleman of respectability and good character for truth; and I further certify that I was acquainted with Wentworth Cheswell Esq deceased whose character was such as is rep- resented by Mr Loveran and in whose collections of statistics and facts I should place much confidence
John Kelly

Sarah J. Roman
Macon No. 332
Official Business.
L. Edwards Esqr. W. Ames Petition Office Washington

New York August 24 th 1850
Mr. Edwards,
Sir,
I received your two favours forwarded by Genl. Cass, respecting my Mother's Pension, for which I am much obliged. I am pleased to get the time correct that my Father served in the western Army. I think, however, he ought to be allowed for the 19 days he was detained, by the small pox and getting home, or at least, a part of it. (He arrived home May 19 th .) I much regret we cannot find the evidence of his services as Commissary and Quartermaster, which we are as confident, were performed, as we are, that he was in the Army. I think there must be some account of it with the Washington papers. Of his services about six weeks at Cambridge, I presume, there is no account and probably no one now living, who was there at the time; but my Mother is sure the services were performed. About his services at New Castle

below Portsmouth N.H. I got Mr. Redington to go to Concord in May last, to ascertain if there was any account of my Father's services there - and he sent me a copy of Capt. Pearson's roll, which shows that he was Capt. P.'s first Lieut. Nov. 6. th 1776. This evidence I send to you. When I called on you in 1840, you first allowed for this service three months on Colonel's evi- dence, who stated that my Father was Lieut. in Capt. Hill's Company; but on examination, you did not find his name in Capt. Hill's company and struck it off. Colonel, also, stated that he was part of the time with Pearson's. It is not strange, after 66 years for Colonel to make such a mistake. My Mother thinks that this service could not be much, if any less than six months. With this evidence from Concord, together with Colonel's and my statements I hope you will allow for that time, or as near that, as you think right. We are confident that he acted at New Castle as Commissary. The reason we have for this belief is, that my Father was often talking abou- t Mr. Hilton's calling on him for provisions for his (Hilton's) men in an improper manner, which caused some trouble between them.

If no farther evidence can be found in the Home Office please have this made up and send me the certificate directed to 72 Gold St. New York
As my Mother now resides with me in Brooklyn it will be a great convenience to have her Pension paid in New York or Brooklyn
Yours Respectfully,
Nathl Gilman
Ms. B. 1. 6 v. 2 p. 33
Mother's

State of Maine, County of Kennebec ss -
On this twenty fifth day of October in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before me Mr Redington, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, throughout the State of Maine, being a Court of Record. Mrs Sarah Gilman a resident of Waterville, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 - That I am the widow of Nathaniel Gilman who was a Lieutenant and served as Commissary and Quartermaster in the army during a period of the war of the Revolution. - I was married to Mr Gilman in New Market N. Hampshire Octo 1. 1774 under a license from Gov. Wentworth and by the Rev. John Noyes, then a minister at New Market. I have reasons to believe and do believe that my late husband was a zealous whig or liberty man from the commence- ment of the Revolution and was actively engaged in the cause from the earliest period of the war. - He went to Cambridge where he lost my mother's spy-glass - He was for a long time at Great Island, below Portsmouth - During his absence there, my husband's sister, who is now living in N. Hampshire spent a part of the time with me. - He was at

Saratoga, Bemis Heights (and) at the surrender of Burgoyne - He wintered at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777 & 1778. and was near the City of New York - I think he was also at West Point - He was, I think, absent during this time a part of 1776. all or nearly all of 1777 (and) a part of the year 1778. I have no written documents relating to his Revolutionary services unless there may be some letters I received from him during his absence, nor do I now know the Regiment or Company he was attached to, but he was with General Dearborn and Maj r Cass, father of the late Secretary of War, who was his brother in law, Cass having married his sister. - We then lived in New Market N.H. - During his absence at this time I spent part of my time at my husband's father's Theophilus Gilman, at Exeter N.H. but most of the time I boarded at the Rev d John Wood's New Market N.H. who was my father in law.
After the war, we resided at New Market N.H. about ten years (and) since the death of my husband, which took place August 13. 1803. I have for the most part of the time resided at Waterville Me, with my son Nathaniel Gilman. - I have never been married a second time. From the first of his entrance into the service, he was called a Lieutenant. - At Great Island he had men under his command. This was the same season, when Capt t Mowatt had command of three British armed ships upon that station; at any rate there were three such ships lying

off and on there - And Mowatt was in one of them. My name, before I married Mr Gilman was Sarah Branscomb. -
Sarah Gilman
State of Maine ss. On this twenty fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, the above named Sarah Gilman made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by her subscribed, according to her best knowledge and belief. I personally knew the elder Nathaniel Gilman, named in the above certificate. He was for several seasons master of the school which I attended in childhood, and was a trader in the village where I lived. I have no doubt he served in the Revolutionary Army. I think it must be thirty years at least since his death. With his widow, this applicant, I have been acquainted for twenty to thirty years. She retains her physical and intellectual powers to a degree unusual for a person of her years. She has sustained an unblemished character, and is of undoubted credibility in the matters involving her truth and veracity. Through present infirmity of body, she is unable to attend in open Court.
Asa Redington, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the State of Maine
State of Maine
Kennebec ss. -
I, the undersigned, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, do certify that Asa Redington above named is a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for said State of Maine, and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 25th day of October. A.D. 1838.
Thomas Swan

Augusta Oct. 26, 1838
I hereby certify, that during a three years residence in Waterville, commencing in February 1835 - I was well acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Gilman, the within applicant; that during that period she was a regular attendant on my ministry, and became connected with my church; that she instanced every word from which Christian character, and should regard her statements as entitled to full credit.
Th. Andrews, Late Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Waterville.
Nathl. Gilman
May 7.
4380

Nathan Gilman Esq 72 Gold St NY
Mr James E. Heath Commissioner of Pension Washington D.C.
J. E. Heath
Luther

Brooklyn. Mch 16 th 1852
Mr. James E. Heath, Commissioner of Pensions Washington
Sir,
My late Husband (Nathl. Gilman) was employed the most of the time in the Army of the Revolution from its commencement, until he left in May 1778. He went as Volunteer with others from Exeter, New Hampshire, to Cambridge, Mass. in the Spring or Summer of 1775, was absent about six weeks - He volunteered with others to go to Hampton, where a landing of the enemy was expected. He was employed to help defend the harbour, below Portsmouth N.H. the fall, winter and Spring of 1775. and 1776. He was 1 st Lieutenant in Capt. Parsons company, he also acted as Commissary all, or part, of the time.
He did not go to New-Castle, until after the birth of my first child which took place on the 28 th September, 1775 - but went soon after. I think he was employed rassing men, and other ways, before he went to New-Castle - He was in the Western Army from November 8 th 1776 until May 1778 - For all his services at New-Castle, Cambridge &c I have been allowed only as Lieutenant. Three months; and only as Lieutenant.

in The Western Army Sir, I ask for an increase of my Pension, of four months as Lieutenant, and One Year at least, as Commissary, and Quarter Master, the  full sum in my due; although I was not able to satisfy Mr. Edwards of this service, — Lately (since my last allowance) I have found the within two letters written me from The Battlefield; these with the evidence in The Office, I think will satisfy any reasonable man that I am entitled to all I ask for.
I hope Sir, you will take this evidence, with that now in The Office, and all the circumstances, into consideration; with the difficulty of obtaining evidence of what took place 75 years ago. (It was a mere chance that these letters were found, they have been out of my possession forty years) and allow me an old lady (now near 94 years old) as near what is her rights, as the case will admit of,
Very Respectfully Yours
Sarah Gilman

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
AWF/HBM
April 7, 1930.
Miss Juliet Sager State Historical Library Springfield Illinois.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 17011, it appears that Nathaniel Gilman , the son of Theophilus Gilman of Exeter, New Hampshire, while residing in New Market, New Hampshire, went to Cambridge, Massachusetts in the spring of 1775 and served six weeks under Major Cass, in the Commissary Department.
From the fall of 1775 until in the spring of 1776 he served as 1st lieutenant in Captains Hill's and Joseph Parsons' New Hampshire Companies. He was commissioned November 8, 1776 1st lieutenant in Colonel Scammell's 3rd New Hampshire Regiment. He was at the taking of Burgoyne, was at Valley Forge the winter of 1777 and 1778 and resigned April 1, 1778. He did not reach home until May 19, 1778, having had the smallpox in the meantime.
He died August 13, 1803, at Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine.
The soldier married October 1, 1774, at New Market, New Hampshire, Sarah Branscomb. They were married by the Rev. John Moody of New Market, New Hampshire, who was sometimes referred to as her father-in-law and at other times as her step-father.
She was allowed pension on her application executed October 25, 1838, at which time she was living in Waterville, Maine, aged eighty years.
Their first child was born September 28, 1775. The only child mentioned in the case was Nathaniel who, in 1850 was residing in Brooklyn, New York.
The above noted Nathaniel Gilman is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours,
Acting Commissioner.

I Mehitable Burleigh of Newmarket in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged seventyfive years do testify and depose that I was well acquainted with Sarah Branncomb before she was married she was my own Cousin she lived about a half mile from me with the Reverend John Moody her father Mr Lewis I knew she was Counted By Nathaniel Gilman of then a Merchant of Newmarket I remember the night that they were married altho not at the wedding it was on a Saturday night they were married as I understood By Mr Moody it was the autumn before the Revolutionary war commenced I knew them well after they were married, I often visited them after they kept house I also knew that Mr Gilman was a liberty man and that he was an Officer in the service I remember that Mr Gilmans sister Martha spent some considerable time with Miss Gilman she visited us at the time she was with Miss Gilman I well recollect the time that Miss Gilman and her child boarded at Mr Moodys during these times I understood Mr Gilman was in the war I well recollect of the hardships he endured talked of Mr Gilman died at Waterville a long long time ago now Miss Gilman resides there now
Mehitable Burleigh
Rockingham ss November the 6 th 1838 personally appearing Mehitable Burleigh made oath that the above deposition by her subscribed is in her belief true Before me Benjamin Lovern Justice of the Peace
I have been acquainted with Mrs Mehitable Burleigh for many years she is a lady of great Respectability and her statements entitled to full credit Benjamin Lovern
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss
I John Kelly Register of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Benjamin Lovern is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his on this paper and on the paper annexed (Affidavits of Joseph Colcord & Mehitable Burleigh) are genuine and in his own proper hand writing In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 10 th day of November 1838 John Kelly Register of Probate

Joseph Colcord of Newmarket in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged Eightyfour years do testify and depose that I was acquainted with Nathaniel Gilman he was a Lieutenant I served in the war of the Rebellion under him three Months from the first day of September seventeen Hundred & seventyfive to the first day of December following we served at Portsmouth and on an Island below Portsmouth after serving out my time three Months I Left that Company which was Capt Hills and intisted in another which was Capt Joseph Parsons Company I went with him to Cambridge I was acquainted with Nathaniel Gilman before and after the war he was a Merchant in Newmarket he married with Brunscomb a daughter in law of the Reverend John Moody - I have also Been acquainted with his wife and also with her since she has Become his Widow she now resides at Waterville Maine
Rockingham November 6 th 1888 Joseph Colcord Personally appearing Joseph Colcord made oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed is just and true Before me Benj m Loveron Justice of the Peace
I have been acquainted with Mr. Joseph Colcord for many years he is a Gentleman of Respectability and his statements intitled to full Credit Benj m Loveron

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17011
Sarah Gilman Widow of Nathaniel Gilman Lieut Genl War
Act: July 4 th 86
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1892 Jan 12 letter to Mrs. O. Jones My City See Slip inside F.S.
Oct. 13-1900 - Hist to Mrs. Caroline G. McClellan Durian Gun
1930 - April 7 - Hist to Juliet Sager aug.

✓ n o 4380
Sarah Gilman widow of Nath l Gilman, Lieut. act July 4. 1836 15 mo.
Maine case Roll
See letter to N. Gilman May 8. 1839.
$200 per annum to com: 4 March '31
Hand cert: letter N. Gilman, Esq. of New York Present

Sarah Gilman -
Nathaniel
1849 at 1836
Add d Evidence for increased pension of Sarah Gilman widow of Nath l -
- N.Y. Act of 1832 - filed by Nath l Gilman in pension - when address -
Department of the Interior, Pension Office, Official Business.

Maine
Sarah Gilman, widow of Nathaniel Gilman,
who died on the 13 th August 1803. of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire who was a Lieut. in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg t . commanded by Genl. Dearborn in the New Hampshire line for 15 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 200 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of May 1840. Issued to and N. Gilman Esq r . of New York. Present
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1840. $1800.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept r 40. 100.00
$1900.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Recorded by Wm. G. Ditzinger Clerk, Book A — Vol. 1 — Page 8.

name P. Agt. & D. Redington
Oct 14. 1840. see letter to Hon. L.
Capt. Jan. 12. 1846.
Letter to G. W. Morton & Ben Agent Nov 20 th 1846.
Letter to Hon. D. H. H. August.
P. Agt May 3 1848
to Hon. J. D. Clayton, May 14/50
Letter to Hon. Lewis Cass July 10/50
" to same 1 st August 1850
to Mr. P. Agt " 21. "
To Mr. P. Agt July 14 March 1848
August 28. 1850.

I Chase Wiggins of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham of State of New Hampshire aged seventy four years, testify before and say: That I was acquainted with Nathaniel Gilman, when he was courting Sarah Branscomb: - I remember the time they were married: I lived in the next house to Mr Moody, her step-father when they were married: It was before the commencement of the war, of the Revolution; - I also remember that said Nathaniel Gilman was a very zealous liberty man; New Market being, rather a tory place; he was forward in the cause; I think he, at first volunteered his services, with others; - He was a Lieutenant, he was in the service all, or a considerable part of the first years of the war: I also know of Mrs Gilman's boarding at Mr Moody's several times: Also of her being at said Nath l Gilman's father's at Exeter, during the time he was in the War: - I lived with said Nath l Gilman after he left the service, and at the time the peace took place.
Chase Wiggins

State of New Hampshire County of Rockingham } ss
Perkins on the 7th day of November 1838
Then Chase Whiggins within named, personally appearing, subscribed, and made oath, in due form of law, to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, before me: —
I also certify that this affiant, is, in my opinion, a credible and respectable witness.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial seal, the day, Month and year, last aforesaid.
Wm B. Parker Notary Public.
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss I John Kelly Register of Probate for said County certify that William B Parker as a Notary Public for said State and that the foregoing sign above purporting to be his is adorning and in his own proper handwriting In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this 10th day of November AD 1838 John Kelly Register 17 R.R. Bates

District of Columbia County of Washington, ss. }
On this twenty second day of May eighteen hundred and forty personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the County of Washington, Nathaniel Gilman, who being duly sworn deposes and says that he has carefully searched his father's Family Bible, and there is not to be found in it any record whatever of the marriage of his father and mother. He makes this declaration in order to be filed with the papers in support of the claim of his mother Mrs. Sarah Gilman, of Waterville, Maine.
Sworn to and subscribed
Nath l Gilman
J. A. H. J. Peace

I Thomas J. Richmond of New Market county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged thirty two years and upwards do now and say That I am the acting Pastor of the only Congregational church in said New Market, That I have the records of said Church in my possession, That said records afford no proof of the marriage of Nathaniel Gilman to Sarah Branscomb, and that no marriage records by Parson Moody has ever come to my hands. I further do now and say That no Church records of marriages or births has ever come to my hands, and that there is none in this town to my knowledge or belief.
Thomas J. Richmond.
State of New Hampshire. November 8. 1834. Subscribed and Sworn to by the said Thomas J. Richmond, Who, I hereby certify is entitled to full credit as a Witness. Before me David Murray Notary Public

Payment to be made at Portland, Maine, by Albert Newhall Esq. Agent for paying Pen- sioners, in the Agency of
Maine.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol. 1.
Page 8. by -
W. Q. Lantzingen
Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d. section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, _____ Sarah Gilman, of Kennebec Co. Maine. widow of Nathaniel Gilman, _____ who was a _____ Lieutenant in the Revolution, is entitled to receive Two hundred _____ dollars and _____ cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of Sep- tember.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Twenty second day of May _____ one thousand eight hundred and thirty four Fourty.
H. Poinsett
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

9. Mr. Sharp
15. 22 Secy M c Hughes
3
Am in 1735 - under Capt. Parsons
1. 8. 22

Department of State, Washington, 27 th July 1858.
J. S. Edwards, Esq., Commissioner of Pensions, Sir,
Referring you to the letter of this Department addressed to you on the 22 nd of May, 1858, I have to state, in reply to your letter of the 13 th instant, that the following is all the information that appears in the "Washington Papers, relating to the name of Nathaniel Gilman."
In a List of the Rank and Occurrences of the Field, Staff, and other commissioned Officers of the 3 rd New Hampshire Regiment, Colonel Scammon's, the following occurs, viz., —
"Nathaniel Gilman — 7 th 1 st Lieut. — Commissioned, Novem 8, 1776 — discharged April 1 st 78."
The

The annexed notes are copied from the volume of Resignations.
(Copy)
"Camp 1 st May, 1778.
Sir — If you will be so kind as to procure me the discharge I was mentioning this morning. I shall take it as a favour & you will much oblige,
Your Very Humb l . S t
To the Adjutant Gen l :
Nath l Gilman. "
(Copy)
"Camp 30 th April 1778.
This may certify that Lieut. Nath l Gilman has this day settled and there is nothing due from him to the Continent.
W m Weeks, P. M r
Endorsed on the back " Lt. N. Gilman, Col t Scam- mell's New Hampshire Reg t Resigned 1 st May 1778."
No further information has been found in connection with the enquiries made in your letter.
I am

I am, Sir, very respectfully, Your obedient Servant,
D r C. M. Webster.

Waterville Me, Octo 9. 1840
Dr. Edwards.
Sir -
Mrs Sarah Gilman of this town has received her pension certificate for 19 $ 00 & has twice sent to the Agent in Portland for the money but has not yet received it - She is in need of it & requests me to apprise you of the fact that she has twice sent for it & payment has been denied on the ground that the Agent had not rec d . from the Department any evidence that the certificate had been issued to her.
Please state when she may expect her to receive the money Y r obliged -
Very respectfully
Yours &c Dana Redington -
3327 Sarah Gilman 36 me

Nov 19 1846 New York STA AUG 30
10
James L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Augusta, Maine
Nov. 14. 1846
Sir,
I enclose the pension voucher of Mrs. Sarah Gilman, then being one year's pension due, from Sept 4. 1845 to Sept 4. 1846. If the voucher is satisfactory, will you please to direct the agent for this State to pay it. She is still living and has usually delayed calling for her pension until there was twelve months' pension due her.
Very respectfully
Your Obed Servt Geo W. Morton
James L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Putnam Me. March 25. 1848
Sir.
In conformity to your letter of Aug t 3. 1846 to the Pension agent of this State I herewith enclose you the application of William Fozier. Joseph Henry Sarah Gilman, Mary Leola and Lydia Parker all claiming one year's pay which if correct will entitle you to give directions for the payment.
Respectfully Yrs J. H. Asley
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

New York City Pension Agency August 30. 1850
Sir
I have this morning received two letters with differing instructions in an apparently identical case; the one directing me to inscribe on the roll the name of Sarah Gilman , widow of Nathaniel Gilman , a Lieutenant at 276. \frac{43}{100} dollars per annum under Act of 4 th July, 1836 ; the other informing me that Sarah Gilman , widow of Nathaniel Gilman , a revolutionary pensioner, late of the State of Maine, at the rate of 200 dollars per annum, had been transferred to this agency, and directing me to pay her at the above rate from 4 th March, 1848 - Act not specified. I invite attention to the fact that the inadvertence, if it should prove to be such, may be reasonably corrected. The first directs payment from 4 th March 1839 .
Very respectfully
Your obedient Servant Hene M. Dilling Pension Agent
Each letter is dated Aug 28.
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissary of Pensions Washington D.C.

Increase Sarah Gilman mo of Nathaniel M ch act 4 July 1836
Adm d
20 mo 22 days sent. $276 43 p an
pm 4 March 1831 deducting what has been paid at the rate of $200. p an from that date
Nathaniel Gilman No 72 Road Street New York

Pension Office Portland Aug. 24. 1850.
Sir, In answer to yours of 21 st , would say that Sarah Gilman, widow of Nathl. Gilman, a pension man the Act 4 th July 1836. was last paid at this Agency 4 th March 1848.
Respectfully Yours
Wm Woodbury P.W. Agt By R. Mitchell
J. L. Edmands Esq. Commission of Pension Washington D.C.

Washington, May. 10, 1850
Sir,
I enclose you the statement of Mrs. Gilman. She has given it a wrong direction, but I will thank you to cause it to be examined and to let me know what the facts are, that I may determine whether it is worth while to take any other steps in the case.
I am, Sir, Respectfully Your Obedient Servant
J. L. Edwards Esq Com in fauour of Pensions Washington
P.S. Please to return the letter.

Washington, July, 9. 1850.
Sir,
Some weeks since I transmitted you the application of Mrs Gilman, the widow of Nathaniel Gilman of Exeter, New Hampshire, a revolutionary soldier for an increased pension. I have yet received no answer, and I write for the purpose of asking your attention to the subject.
I am, Sir, Resp ly
Your Ob t Serv t
James L. Edwards Esq — L. G. L. oh. Commissioner of Pensions

To J. L. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions Nathaniel Gilman was a Lieut in the war of the Revolution in the 3 d Regiment of N. Hampshire & held a Commission dated Nov. 8. 1776 which he resigned May 1. 1778. — His widow Sarah Gilman is inscribed on the Pension Roll as entitled to a pension under Act of Congress July 4. 1846 for his services as Lieut. She has been informed by her said husband & believes that while he was in the service aforesaid he acted in the capacity of Quartermaster & Commissary & that for these services she is entitled to an increase of Pension under the Acts of Congress — She therefore desires permission, to examine the Records in the Department at Washington, expecting to find the necessary evidence there to establish her claim to an increase of her Pension for her husband's services as Commissary & Quartermaster —
Mrs. Adolphe her atty

WAR DEPARTMENT,
MAY 7, 1839.
SIR:
It is my earnest desire that the business of your office should be conducted with the utmost dispatch and regularity; and I wish that the rule, which declares the presence of an agent for the claimant at your office unnecessary, should not only be strictly adhered to, but that all such persons who may present themselves at your office, with a view of urging immediate attention to their cases, may be informed of the rule, and furnished with a copy of this letter.
I direct, also, that the following rules may be observed:
1st. Should a claimant, or an agent for a claimant, or any one already pensioned, desire that a reference should be made to the papers of any other claimant or pensioner in your office, with a view of elucidating his or her claim, the papers referred to must be designated in writing, and under oath, and form a part of the claimant's declaration.
2d. No agent will be permitted to examine books or papers in the Pension Office in any case whatever, without first making a written application to the Commissioner of Pensions for that purpose, stating fully the object for which he wishes to make such examination, and what particular facts he expects to obtain. The Commissioner will then determine whether the request can be complied with.
3d. To prevent the examining clerks from being interrupted in the discharge of their duties, no person acting on behalf of claimants or pensioners will be allowed to hold any conversation with such clerks in relation to claims presented by them, and no examination of papers deposited by agents or pensioners shall be made in the presence of persons who deposite the same, or who have any interest in the claim or claims presented.
4th. All explanations in relation to evidence must be in writing; and the evidence in no case can be deemed complete unless it can be clearly understood without a verbal explanation.
Very respectfully,
Your most obedient servant,
J. R. POINSETT.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS.
The rule alluded to in the first paragraph of the foregoing letter is contained in a letter from the Secretary of War of September 4, 1833, of which the following is a copy:
DEPARTMENT OF WAR,
September 4, 1833.
SIR:
In the future examination of the Pension cases, they will be taken up in the order of presentation, nor will any preference be shown to cases which are urged by agents attending at the seat of Government for that purpose. I consider the attention of such agents useless in itself, and subjecting the applicants to unnecessary expense.
Very respectfully, I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
LEW. CASS.
J. L. EDWARDS, Esq., Commissioner of Pensions.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
APRIL 9, 1850.
SIR:
I have examined the above rules for the dispatch of business in the Pension Office, am satisfied with them, and direct that they be observed.
T. EWING.
J. L. EDWARDS, Esq., Commissioner of Pensions.

Washington Jan 9 th - 70 -
Sir,
I enclose here with, a letter from Mr Gilman, respecting the series of his deceased father an officer of the revolution. I will thank you to cause the subject to be examined and let me know the result. Please to return the letter of Mr Gilman.
I am Sir
Respectfully
your obed servt,
J. L. L. S.
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of the General Land Office

I Gilman Johnson Town Clerk of Newmarket County of Rockingham State of New Hampshire do on Oath I testify and do say that I have searched the records of said Town of Newmarket and find no Marriages recorded by the Reverend John Moody in said books and in fact there has been no books of records of said town ever come into my hands of an earlier date than the year Seventeen hundred and eighty five. Although there has been some entries on said books of an earlier date
Gilman Johnson Town Clerk.
State of New Hampshire Rockingham County ss
Subscribed and sworn this tenth day of November A.D. 1838 The foregoing is true to the best of my knowledge, and to my knowledge as Town Clerk aforesaid.
Dacia Murray Justice Peace

State of New Hampshire      Rockingham I John Willy Register of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that David Murray Esq. is a justice of the Peace for said County and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine and in his own proper hand writing
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this tenth day of November AD 1830
John Willy Register of Probate

Nath o Gilman's Dep n
May 8 th

I Nathaniel Gilman of Exeter in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged Seventy nine years do on oath testify and say that I was acquainted with Nath- aniel Gilman of Newmarket in said County of Rockingham, he was formerly of that town (Exeter) - I was a school with him, I knew him when he kept his father's books in said Exeter, he was a Lieutenant in the war of the Revolution, I have seen the de- claration of his Widow taken before Judge Redington of Kennebec State of Maine and from my personal knowledge of said Gilman's services, I have no doubt of its truth and correctness, I cannot recollect dates and particulars positive, but I remember at first, that his father was not willing for him to go into the War

but told him if he did go, to do his duty as a Soldier should do, he went. I remember that a large number of men went from this town to Cambridge, as volunteers in April 1775. I knew Jonathan Cass was with them, since Nathaniel Gilman was in the Northern Army, and I understood at the time that he acted as commissary and Quartermaster. Nath d Gilman November 10 th 1838.
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss. Then personally appeared the November 10 th 1838 } above named Nathaniel Gilman and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true. Before me J. P. Hoitt Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Nath d Gilman who has signed, has sworn to the truth of the above statement is a gentleman of undoubted veracity, and that full faith and credit should be thereby to his testimony in any case at issue — J. P. Hoitt Justice Peace

State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss. I B. Hilti Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County of Rockingham hereby certify that J. B. Hilti who has subscribed the foregoing certificates, is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County and that the same is his genuine signature
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of our Superior Court of Judicature, this 10th day of Novem- ber Anno Domini 1838
J. B. Hilti Clerk J. H. Rockingham

July 9/52
Rel: to case of Sarah Gilman
Valhalla Gilman New York
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Official Business

New York July 3 rd 1852
James E. Heath. Esq. Com r of Pensions.
Sir..
Yours of 25 th of June, is received respecting my mother's place of residence. My mother, Sarah Gilman, resided in New-Market, N. Hampshire until 1803, she then removed to Waterville, Maine. She there applied for her Pension - I think in 1840 - I attended to it for her - She only received pay as Lieutenant for a part of the time - she received the Pension at Portland, Maine -
About Five years since she removed here to live with me - About Two years since she made from this place, application for an addition - Mr. Edwards allowed her about Seventy Six, Dols a year more as Lieutenant, short of her due in that Capacity - Last year the letters were found, that I forwarded to you, which, I think is the best evidence of his service as Commissary and Quarter-Master, that could be
I have every reason to believe there is record of it in the War Office
Very Respectfully Yours &c Nath l Gilman

To the Hon John M c Clayton, Secy of State -
I Sarah Gilman of Brooklyn in the State of New York, formerly of New Hampshire, widow of Nathaniel Gilman an officer in the war of the Revolution do state, that my hus- band was employed in the service in the early period of the war - He was a volunteer with May r Capt, father of Genl Levi Capt who went from Exeter N. H. to Cambridge, near Boston, in the spring or summer of '75 with about 110 men & was absent at this time about 6 weeks -
He was in the fall winter & spring of '75 & '76 at Great Island, below Portsmouth N. H. where it was threatened with an attack from three British ships of war then lying off the harbour - At this place I think he acted in the Commissary Department as I often heard him speak of furnishing the soldiers with supplies & rations -
He was commissioned as Lieut, I think in the 3 d New Hampshire Regiment, 8 Nov. '76 & served in the Northern army - He was at Saratoga at the taking of Burgoyne in the fall of '77 & wintered at Valley Forge the following winter - During his service on the Northern frontier, he acted as Commissary & Quarter Master as well as Lieut. & received pay in these several capacities as I will

know at the time - He resigned his commission & returned home 19 th May '78. The small pox was prevailing at that time, with which he was taken sick & was delayed in his return home to his family for a fortnight -
For these services rendered to the Country by my husband, I have received but a small part of what I consider myself entitled to under the Act of Congress July 4 th 1836 - and as I am confident that the services in these several capacities were rendered, I am satisfied that the evidence thereof exists in the departments at Washington which will furnish sufficient proof to entitle me to an increase of my pension - I have been informed by gentlemen who had formerly access to the rolls that such evidence does exist there & have received letters from them offering to act for me in getting my pension increased - But as they claim a large share of what they may obtain, I have felt unwilling to employ them - Of the gentlemen thus proffering their services, is Mr Addison of Washington, for many years a clerk in the pension office -
Understanding that the rule of the Department to be that the Revolutionary papers are not allowed to be examined except by the officers in charge of them, I desire that a thorough examination should be had of them for the purpose of ascertaining the following facts - 1 st How long

My husband served as Lieut of what pay he received therefor. — 2 o How long has served as Quartermaster & Commissary & what pay he received for his services in these several capacities —
As to his services at Great Island, I can speak with certainty as I had personal knowledge of them at the time — I was then unable & My husband was in the habit of coming up to New Market where I lived, every week or two to see me — My husband's sister spent the winter with me during my husband's absence —
The evidence of the services at Great Island I should think was most likely to be found in the settlement of accounts between Mr. Humphreys & the Genl Government —
As soon as the necessary examination can be made, the clerk or officer performing that duty, will please advise my son Nathaniel Gilmour New York, of the result of such examination.
Sarah Gilmour
May 6. 1808

I John Cool of Waterville, in the County of Kennebec, and State of Maine, aged eighty two years, bring first certified and sworn and do on oath say, that I was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and that I served three years in said war - I was at Ticonderoga, Bemis Height and at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga and was in that engagement - I was also at Valley Forge when the army went into winter quarters there - I was well acquainted with Lieutenant Nathaniel Gilman in the war of the Revolution - I often saw him in 1777 at Saratoga and about there. He then acted as Lieutenant. I also saw him at other places during said year - I knew him well at Valley Forge during the winter we encamped there. When we were short of provisions there I will remember that he told us that we should have some on the next day, which we got - During part of the time I was acquainted with him, he acted, I think, as Commissary - I cannot recollect the name of the officer nor the company to which he was attached - But I am positive of his being at the taking of Burgoyne. I that he was at Valley Forge when the army encamped there -
I have also been acquainted with said Nathaniel Gilman at this place (Waterville, Me) for a number of years and until his death - have often talked with him about the war, the taking of Bur-

— joyne and of the sufferings of the army at Valley Forge Hee died at this place more than thirty years ago — I have also been for a long time acquainted with his son Nathaniel I have traded with them while they were in business together here — For many years I have been acquainted with Mrs Sarah Gilman, widow of Lieut. Gilman during her residence here with her son Nathaniel —
attest
Isaac Redington
John his X Cool mark
State of Maine, Kennebec ss — Octo 23 d 1838 —
Personally appeared John Cool, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed.
Before me Isaac Redington Jus. Peace
Kennebec ss Octo 23 d 1838 —
I certify that John Cool above named well known to me, is a credible witness of his statements are entitled to credit
State of Maine } Isaac Redington Jus. Peace Kennebec ss — }
I, Thomas Swan, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said county of Kennebec, do certify that Isaac Redington is a magis- trate as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine —
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 25 th day of October A.D. 1838. —
Thomas Swan
I hereby certify that during a three years residence in this county with Mr. John Cool, am generally conversant with his char- acter and reputation, and that the foregoing affidavit is true to the best of my knowledge. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 25 th day of October A.D. 1838.

Feb. 3, 1930.
Pension Dept. Washington, D. C.
Dear sirs,
only Have you any records which will establish the identity of Nathaniel Gilman, a Revolutionary soldier who lived for a time in Pembroke, N. H. and was married to Molly Holt? There are said to be affidavits in Washington that he came to Pembroke from Exeter, N.H. I want to know who his parents were. Will be much obliged for any information.
Very truly,
(Miss) Juliet Sager
State Historical Library Springfield, Ill.

Heard
Darin come i
Oct 8-1900
Guethun;
Can you tell me of the Pension paid to Mrs Sarah B. Gilman up to the time between 1849 and 1852 - His husband's name, Nathaniel Gilman. What position he held in the army and from where he was appointed - Any

information will be gladly received and on receipt of bill for expenses, will forward the amount.
Very truly
Caroline E. McClellan
Nathaniel Gilman was a native of New Hampshire and afterward went to live with his son, in Waterville, Maine, where he died, and his widow drew a pension until her death sometime in 1849 or or 1852, we are not certain of the time of her death.

The writer of this letter died Jan. 1895 See John H. Norton J. 36
186. West 80th St. N.Y. City Jan 1, 1875,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
The following is copy of a letter I have received from Mr Norton which I had intended handing to you personally but now find I may not be in Washington for some time will you kindly send me the information asked for by Mr N.
Copy
"My dear Mr Jones
I notice in pension list (I think for 1840) that Mrs Sarah Gilman then living in either Readfield or Waterville Maine, was on the pension list. She received this pension on account of the services of her husband. Nathaniel Gilman who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary and died before 1840.
I have long been anxious to learn the birth place or parents of Sarah Gilman (her maiden name was Branscomb) do you think her original application would discover these facts? Edw L. Norton Please send answer to above address Respectfully yours Geo H Jones

O W & N Hon Green B. Raun
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
According to census of 1840,
Sarah Gilmore age 82, residing with Nathan Gilmore Jr at Waterville Kennebec Co. Maine was drawing a pension from the Govt, would like to know on what it was based, Also, the record of John Harrington soldier in the revolutionary war from Connecticut, Please send Answers to Yours respectfully
Geo O Jones 19- East 59 th St New York City,